3.7.15 problem problem 15

Internal problem ID [1056]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, 4th ed., Edwards and Penney
Section : Chapter 11 Power series methods. Section 11.1 Introduction and Review of power series. Page 615
Problem number : problem 15
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:21:15 AM
CAS classification : [_separable]

\begin{align*} x y^{\prime }+y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.021 (sec). Leaf size: 14

Order:=6; 
ode:=x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \frac {c_1}{x}+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 9

ode=x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_1}{x} \]

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*Derivative(y(x), x) + y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="1st_power_series",x0=0,n=6)
 

ValueError : ODE x*Derivative(y(x), x) + y(x) does not match hint 1st_power_series